Quotes About Pressure

Playing in a big tournament is one of the biggest things for a professional footballer.

I'm not worried about the Masters. I never worry about this tournament or that tournament.

When you step foot into your first professional tournament, everything you've done in your amateur career really doesn't matter any more.

When I come to London, it is always quite relaxing for me in a way, not just because it is one of my favourite cities but because it comes immediately after the French Open, which for me is a very significant tournament with lots of pressure.

I think people expect me to be around at the end of a tournament.

In golf, you definitely have your ranking. But it's a bit different than tennis. Whenever there's a golf tournament, you feel like almost anyone can win.

When you start a round with a two-shot lead, it always looks like a big lead and always looks as if you should go on to win a tournament.

When you play the same tournament as Federer, Murray, Djokovic and Rafa, they have more media than me, for sure.

If you win even one tournament or medal, people can think they have become big.

The pro playoff system doesn't cause the same tension. Suppose a team has a bad night? It can bounce back in the next game. In college tournament all they can hope for is the consolation, maybe.

I don't play a lot of tournaments, but if I don't win a tournament in a year, people are like, 'What in the world is going on?' People don't realize how hard it is to win tournaments. You're not going to go out and play 10 tournaments and win one of them. Your odds aren't that good.

When tournaments are on the horizon, I feel teams in general and particularly England get stronger because everyone wants to show they should be in the XI.

Pressure comes from myself, because I expect a lot, but I am trying not to put so much pressure on tournaments and to be less emotional during matches.

In the knockout tournaments, it's futile to prepare for a grand finale. You may have worked out many strategies for the final. But you may lose in the first round itself.

I've started to show the consistency in majors I had in regular tournaments back in 1998-2000 when I was contending nearly every week.

I have been in tournaments before where people would say, 'England should win this game,' and we didn't.

I'm nervous when I play in the Masters or most other tournaments.

I'd rather be able to play great tennis at a slam than make eight finals of little tournaments and then lose first round of a slam. That doesn't sound too good.

It's very stressful being the No. 1 player in the world. You're in the limelight a lot. You've got more things to do when you get to tournaments, more things to do off weeks. But I wouldn't change it in any way because this is exactly where I want to be. I want to try and stay here as long as I can while I can because nothing beats this feeling.

It's very, very difficult to win golf tournaments.

You may be the best team in the world, but you can't win all the tournaments. That's what the media does not understand.

The most I ever played was 12 or 13 tournaments. Now they're talking about almost 20, and it's all year round, playing through the summer as well.

I had to get used to the TV tournaments and the big stages.

I think one of the important things around tournaments and qualifying tournaments is the jeopardy around it.